{"id":12601,"date":"2008-03-13T20:51:43","date_gmt":"2008-03-14T03:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/03\/13\/archive-thoughts.html"},"modified":"2008-03-13T20:51:43","modified_gmt":"2008-03-14T03:51:43","slug":"archive_thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/03\/13\/archive_thoughts.html","title":{"rendered":"Archive thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ktbuffy shares a link to this post about blog archives<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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They\u2019re questions that most bloggers will face after they\u2019ve been blogging for a little while and perhaps have evolved or consciously changed their writing style: Do you go back through your archives and weed out the posts that no longer fit your blog\u2019s style? Or do you leave them as a way to show your blog\u2019s growth and evolution?<\/p>\n

To cull the archives or not to cull?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The idea being, “If your writing style has evolved, or the purpose of your blog has changed, is it kosher to trim away the bits that don’t fit any longer?”<\/p>\n

For myself — I am an historian. I have a passionate sense of duty toward the historical record, an honesty about what I’ve said. I simply cannot bring myself to lop of stuff I’ve written here — even if some of it is, in retrospect, ill-advised. It was what I thought and felt at the time, and the least I can do is respect who I was and be honest about it.<\/p>\n

Your mileage may, of course, vary. And if this was a blog purposed toward something other than my meandering thoughts, I might very well take a different course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ktbuffy shares a link to this post about blog archives. 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